Jeff Blake Quotations

We've got a trailer for 'S.W.A.T.' (the Samuel L. Jackson/Colin Farrell action adventure) attached to 'Bad Boys' that played great this weekend, ... So we're certainly looking forward to its opening Aug. 8. Hopefully, everybody who's seeing 'Bad Boys' (is also) getting excited about 'S.W.A.T.'

He's been playing football his whole life, and he knows how to play the game,

Paul has been my chief lieutenant in managing the day-to-day administration of the international division for quite some time, and there is no one better prepared to take on the challenges and opportunities presented by this division. He has built a strong relationship with key personnel in all of our international offices, and he has earned their confidence and respect by demonstrating his skill as a business leader with a great inside understanding of Sony's global marketing and distribution apparatus.

It does feel that there is going to be a sea change in the business, that there isn't going to be a hit every week of the summer. It's a concern, and the bar for the movies that are going to do well seems to have been raised this summer. I don't think anyone wants to live in a world where you have to have one of the biggest movie stars, with one of the biggest directors with a giant concept like aliens invading earth, as your criteria for a hit. It's a pretty high place to put the bar.

I think if you look at the whole year in reflection, some of the ones that looked good on paper did not turn out that way.

That was the message that was heard loud and clear by Hollywood. Why not get everyone if you can? There's great value in having a picture that can appeal to everyone.

Unlike the trend of sequels this summer, this movie will exceed the total of the original at the end of week one,

We got the message loud and clear that moviegoing isn't necessarily going to happen in the summer season every week unless there is something motivating the audience.

We ran about 60-40 percent female to male. It's about 55 percent under-25 and 45 percent over-25, a pretty good mix of ages. Young women love it, but men like it, as well.

Today we used all of our players and we cut down on our mistakes. (Patron) Scott (Devon) is a big part of our team, and we didn't use him right Sunday. Today we got him more involved offensively, and he was a big help for us.

was cussing me out from A to Z.

Everything in it I've already seen. There are some (different) things as far as pass plays, but for protection, it's all the same. As long as I can protect myself, I have an opportunity to play the game.

The scariest part (of these past few weeks) is that usually you can rely on there being a hit every week of the summer or at least every week in July. The biggest concern in the industry is two out of four weeks in our best month, there were no major openings. Clearly 'Stealth' did share a lot of the same problems that 'The Island' did. It just seemed that both were typical summer action fare that did not seem to resonate at all.

The breaks started going our way at that point. We had some balls that went off of horses and other things went in our favor.

You really think about starting over from scratch, pretending the game hadn't started, and it worked for me.

The way you handle it is come back out the next week and throw five touchdowns; that's what Daunte did yesterday.

This is about getting 'All the King's Men' right; it's not about the rest of the slate. We will slot it where it can have its due. It will be a high-profile spot for a high-profile movie.

There were a lot of weekends where there were just no winners. Even in July, our best month of the year, you had two weekends where none of the films really worked. That's a scary thought to us.

There were some weekends when you had the big new film of the weekend, when you thought you were going to be the only kid on the block. And a film that was a week or two old would be No. 1. There was no way to predict whether people were going to come out for the movies or what they were going to choose.

It's a buffer. We do them frequently, and quite frankly I think you're going to see them more often. Sometimes the way (to go) is to share the risk.

It's a lesson learned on judging talent. It's not how big you are, it's not how strong or fast you are, but it's character and will and drive and the size of a person's heart. Those things you can't measure.

It's the biggest one-two producing punch ever. You've got to hand it to Jerry Bruckheimer.

It's not going to be smooth sailing all the time. But sometimes you just have to take the good with the bad, learn from it and just move on.

Everyone feels confident about the movies they've got going in. But I admit, there is little margin for error. Our big movies are going to have to come through if it's going to add up for the studios and the industry this year.

Everybody was saying they're gonna go with what they have. That was the word we were getting. But I wasn't worried about it. If it's my time to go, it's my time to go. I have my kids and would love to see them play.

Summer is when audiences expect us to deliver excitement. Some movies just didn't fulfill that promise.

It's not about speed, it's about making plays,

Any time you have a high volume of releases like we do, and the middle films stop working, that kind of hits us worse than anybody else.

I'm glad that the organization gave me this opportunity because they could have brought somebody else in, ... They could have brought a number of guys in that are out there, but they decided to bring me in. I just appreciate the opportunity.

I'm just coming in to do whatever Coach wants me to do. I'm here to support my teammates. Playing 13 years in the league, I have a lot of knowledge of the game, and I can't take it with me so I'm here to help ... and be ready to play when my time comes.

I had to. I might not ever do it again.

If he doesn't get hurt, he's going to play all season. He stands in there and delivers the ball. He makes his reads. He throws the ball hot when he's supposed to throw the ball hot. He sees the blitz, and he takes it head-on. He can play, and he's only going to get better.

The lightning speed with which these copies spread around the planet was horrifying, ... No matter how much you spend on security or what precautions you take, the grim truth is once a film gets uploaded on the Internet, suddenly it's everywhere.